_JOSIAH WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED IN JERUSALEM ONE AND THIRTY YEARS._ Josiah was eight years old - (see the notes at 2 Kings 22:1.) The testimony borne to the undeviating stedfastness of his adherence to the cause of true religion, places his character and reign in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND WALKED IN THE WAYS OF DAVID HIS FATHER, AND DECLINED NEITHER TO THE RIGHT HAND, NOR TO THE LEFT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR IN THE EIGHTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN, WHILE HE WAS YET YOUNG, HE BEGAN TO SEEK AFTER THE GOD OF DAVID HIS FATHER: AND IN THE TWELFTH YEAR HE BEGAN TO PURGE JUDAH AND JERUSALEM FROM THE HIGH PLACES, AND THE GROVES, AND THE CARVED IMAGES, AND THE MOLTEN IMAGES._ In the eighth year of his reign. This... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY BRAKE DOWN THE ALTARS OF BAALIM IN HIS PRESENCE; AND THE IMAGES, THAT WERE ON HIGH ABOVE THEM, HE CUT DOWN; AND THE GROVES, AND THE CARVED IMAGES, AND THE MOLTEN IMAGES, HE BRAKE IN PIECES, AND MADE DUST OF THEM, AND STROWED IT UPON THE GRAVES OF THEM THAT HAD SACRIFICED UNTO THEM._ The g... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BURNT THE BONES OF THE PRIESTS UPON THEIR ALTARS, AND CLEANSED JUDAH AND JERUSALEM._ He burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars - a greater brand of infamy could not have been put on idolatrous priests than the disinterment of their bones; and a greater defilement could not have be... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SO DID HE IN THE CITIES OF MANASSEH, AND EPHRAIM, AND SIMEON, EVEN UNTO NAPHTALI, WITH THEIR MATTOCKS ROUND ABOUT._ With their mattocks - or, 'in their deserts,' so that the verse will stand thus: 'And so did (namely, break the altars, and burn the bones of priests) he in the cities of Manasse... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE HAD BROKEN DOWN THE ALTARS AND THE GROVES, AND HAD BEATEN THE GRAVEN IMAGES INTO POWDER, AND CUT DOWN ALL THE IDOLS THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL, HE RETURNED TO JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN, WHEN HE HAD PURGED THE LAND, AND THE HOUSE, HE SENT SHAPHAN THE SON OF AZALIAH, AND MAASEIAH THE GOVERNOR OF THE CITY, AND JOAH THE SON OF JOAHAZ THE RECORDER, TO REPAIR THE HOUSE OF THE LORD HIS GOD._ In the eighteenth year of his reign ... he sent Shaphan... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY CAME TO HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST, THEY DELIVERED THE MONEY THAT WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD, WHICH THE LEVITES THAT KEPT THE DOORS HAD GATHERED OF THE HAND OF MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM, AND OF ALL THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL, AND OF ALL JUDAH AND BENJAMIN; AND THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM._... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THEY BROUGHT OUT THE MONEY THAT WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, HILKIAH THE PRIEST FOUND A BOOK OF THE LAW OF THE LORD GIVEN BY MOSES._ Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses, х_ BªYAD_ (H3027) _ MOSHEH _ (H4872)] - by the hand of Moses, which Kennic... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HILKIAH ANSWERED AND SAID TO SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE, I HAVE FOUND THE BOOK OF THE LAW IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. AND HILKIAH DELIVERED THE BOOK TO SHAPHAN._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE KING HAD HEARD THE WORDS OF THE LAW, THAT HE RENT HIS CLOTHES._ When the king has heard the words of the law ... (see the notes at 2 Kings 22:11; 2 Kings 23:1.)... [ Continue Reading ]